Newsflash: Places To Invest To Get To The 1% Rule

So, in a previous post, I asked if the 1% rule was a myth (see https://goo.gl/LaTrq6). Thanks to all the amazing answers, I am (kinda) convinced that one can make this happen. But where is a good place in the US to research in order to make this happen. A friend of mine says Detroit and Buffalo. Good people of Reddit, what is your opinion?